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very, very geometric and the kind of very modern, modern in the capital m sense, modernist sense of the ship, which is one of the things that made it so striking to people. it really was. you would not have been surprised if the monitor was built in the 1920s and not in the 1860s. that's almost how people thought of it. lastly, i want to talk just a little bit about all the things that have gone on. and there's been a lot of war in the last 20 years, since the first gulf war. and a lot of those same questions that came around the "monitor" were raised. this is, of course, not from th...

this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and it's an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for the crews aboard the b-17s. and you can see the introduction of electronics and electronic technology, the idea is without it everybody's flying all around and it's a big mess and there are these messy people in there. add the electronics and everything's clean and the sun is shining and you have this bright new horizon. very much the idea that john ericsson had about what he called...

lastly, i want to talk just a little bit about all the things that have gone on. and there's been a lot of war in the last 20 years, since the first gulf war. and a lot of those same questions that came around the "monitor" were raised. this is of course not from them but from before. this is from world war ii. late world war ii. and it's an advertisement from general electric depicting the air war over europe, which was a pretty brutal and in some ways very monitor-like experience for the crews aboard the b-17s. and you can see the introduction of electronics and electronic technolo...

>> i've got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what we're doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the "uss monitor" for quite some time. and i'm so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i've got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a historian and engineer. we're not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit's program on ...

coffin" was awarded the sally hacker prize by the society for the history of technology. before coming to mit, he worked as a research engineer in the deep submergence laboratory where he is now a visiting investigator. maybe we'll find out what he is investigating. he has conducted all kinds of research there and worked on -- operated on autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean and even developed the control system and pilot interface for the woods hole jason vehicle. so the man has done a little bit of everything. monitor, apollo, bronze age shipw...